JN-BICOM 2015 Conference: A speech by Shaul Mofaz
By Shaul Mofaz
A speech by former IDF Chief of Staff and Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz at the the BICOM-Jewish News ‘UK/Israel...
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Summer 2015
JN-BICOM 2015 Conference: Yair Lapid in conversation with Bronwen Maddox
By Yair Lapid
Leader of the Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid speaking to Prospect editor Bronwen Maddox the BICOM-Jewish News ‘UK/Israel Shared Strategic Challenges Conference’.
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Summer 2015
Multi-stage Coordinated Unilateralism: A Proposal to Rescue the Two-State Paradigm
By Cary Nelson
In this wide-ranging and hopeful essay, Cary Nelson aims to move the international conversation about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict away from mutual...
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Summer 2015
Gaza One Year After - An Interview with Elhanan Miller
By Elhanan Miller
Elhanan Miller is the Arab Affairs reporter for the Times of Israel. Alan Johnson is the editor...
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Summer 2015
Making Sense of the Israeli Elections
By Naomi Chazan
On 20 March 2015, three days after the Israeli election, former Deputy Speaker of the Knesset Naomi Chazan...
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Winter 2015
Book Review | Making David Into Goliath: How the World Turned Against Israel
By Michael Allen
700 British artists have announced that they are boycotting Israel until the ‘colonial oppression of Palestinians’ ends. In...
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Winter 2015
An Arab Social Worker in Israel
By Lamis Shibli Ghadir
Lamis Shibli Ghadir explains the challenges and the rewards of being an Arab social worker in the Ein...
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Winter 2015
Palestinian politics after the Gaza conflict: Ben Cohen interviews David Pollock
By Ben Cohen
Where is Palestinian politics going? Fathom advisory editor Ben Cohen talked to David Pollock. Hamas ‘It's not unreasonable...
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Autumn 2014
Benedetta Berti | Gaza Symposium: Reconstruction for Demilitarisation?
By Benedetta Berti
Alan Johnson: There have been three military operations in Gaza since 2008. To avoid a fourth, Udi Dekel and Shlomo Brom of...
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Summer 2014
Einat Wilf | Gaza Symposium: Reconstruction for Demilitarisation?
By Einat Wilf
Alan Johnson: There have been three military operations in Gaza since 2008. Not just Israelis and Gazans, but...
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Summer 2014
Gershon Baskin | Gaza Symposium: Reconstruction for Demilitarisation?
By Gershon Baskin
Alan Johnson: There have been three military operations in Gaza since 2008. Not just the Israelis and Gazans,...
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Summer 2014
Asher Susser | Gaza Symposium: Reconstruction for Demilitarisation?
By Asher Susser
Alan Johnson: There have been three military operations in Gaza since 2008. Not just Israelis and Gazans, but...
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Summer 2014
Jonathan Spyer | Gaza Symposium: Reconstruction for Demilitarisation?
By Jonathan Spyer
Alan Johnson: There have been three military operations in Gaza since 2008. Not just Israelis and Gazans, but...
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Summer 2014
Michael Herzog | Gaza Symposium: Reconstruction for Demilitarisation?
By Michael Herzog
Alan Johnson: There have been three military operations in Gaza since 2008. Not just Israelis and Gazans, but...
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Summer 2014
Jonathan Rynhold | Gaza Symposium: Reconstruction for Demilitarisation?
By Jonathan Rynhold
Alan Johnson: There have been three military operations in Gaza since 2008. Not just the Israelis and Gazans,...
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Summer 2014
Matthew Levitt | Gaza Symposium: Reconstruction for Demilitarisation?
By Matthew Levitt
Alan Johnson: There have been three military operations in Gaza since 2008. To avoid a fourth, Udi Dekel and...
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Summer 2014
IDF operations and the laws of war
By Pnina Sharvit-Baruch
Israel’s military operation to stop rocket fire at Israeli cities and to destroy Hamas tunnels under the Gaza-Israel...
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Summer 2014
The state of Hamas: Toby Greene interviews Benedetta Berti
By Benedetta Berti
Questions have been raised about the direction and intentions of Hamas since the signing of a reconciliation agreement...
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Spring 2014
Israel and the Territories
By Ahron Bregman
Fathom editors spoke to Ahron Bregman about his new book Cursed Victory: A History of Israel and the...
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Spring 2014
Demarcating the Israeli-Palestinian Border
By Professor David Newman
One reason for the foundering of the recent Israeli-Palestinian peace talks was the failure of the parties to...
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Spring 2014
Israel’s National-Religious Jews and the quest for peace
By Ofer Zalzberg
The Middle East Peace Process has often marginalised the voice of the ‘National-Religious,’ or ‘Religious Zionist’ Jews. Ofer...
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Spring 2014
The Two-State Solution: The Way Forward
By Manuel Hassassian and Raphael Cohen-Almagor
When we launched Fathom the editors declared that the journal would be ‘a partisan and artisan of the...
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Spring 2014
Mutual recognition is essential for a solution
By Toby Greene
The Hassassian and Cohen-Almagor document is commendable for its embrace of mutual recognition, respect and dialogue, even if...
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Spring 2014
Philosophers For Hamas!
By Gabriel Noah Brahm
A leading European philosopher has declared for killing ‘Zionists’ and arming Hamas. Gabriel Brahm asks what it all...
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Spring 2014
A reply to The Lancet’s ‘Open letter for the people in Gaza’
By David Stone
Introduction On 22 July 2014, one of the world’s leading medical journals, The Lancet, published a letter entitled...
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Spring 2014
On Jerusalem: an interview with Danny Seidemann
By Danny Seidemann
Daniel Seidemann is an Israeli attorney specialising in Israeli-Palestinian relations in Jerusalem. He is the founder of Terrestrial Jerusalem,...
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Autumn 2013
Hilik Bar MK on the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks
By Hilik Bar
Hilik Bar MK is Secretary General of the Israeli Labour Party, the Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, and...
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Autumn 2013
Two States is Common Sense
By Hitham Kayali
The one-state solution is a mirage. Only the two state solution can meet the national aspirations of both...
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Autumn 2013
Twenty years after Oslo: peace now?
By Toby Greene
Was Israel’s attempt to resolve its dispute with the Palestinians through bilateral negotiations with the PLO doomed from...
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Autumn 2013
UNRWA: an obstacle to peace?
By Einat Wilf
For the sake of peace, reform of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is urgently needed,...
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Autumn 2013
Book Review: Fortress Israel
By Charles D. Freilich
Patrick Tyler begins Fortress Israel with an alleged Israeli ‘hit’ against an Iranian nuclear scientist. In reality, the...
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Summer 2013
Book Review: The Peace Puzzle
By Ahron Bregman
A series of revolutions over the last two years – the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ – has created a...
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Summer 2013
A moment to seize in the Israeli-Palestinian arena
By Michael Herzog
In March 2013 Brig. Gen. (ret.) Michael Herzog analysed a possible opportunity in the Israeli-Palestinian arena for BICOM. Here...
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Summer 2013
Book Review: Israel’s Death Hierarchy
By Avi Kober
This is an excellent account of Israeli casualty aversion by one of Israel’s leading military sociologists. At the...
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Spring 2013
In praise of compromise: Simon Round interviews Amos Oz
By Simon Round
Amos Oz has lived through every one of Israel’s wars and fought in two of them. He has...
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Spring 2013
Obama’s second term: empower the nation-builders not the extremists
By Hussein Ibish
Salam Fayyad’s institution-building program remains the only policy available to lay the groundwork for a successful two-state outcome....
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Spring 2013
Obama’s second term: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not yet soluble
By Joshua Muravchik
There is no alternative to the two-state solution, but neither party is yet in a position to make...
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Spring 2013
Thoughts of a National Liberal: an interview with Benny Begin
By Benny Begin
First elected to the Knesset in 1988 as a Likud MK, Benny Begin is Minister without Portfolio in...
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Winter 2013
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